Who Is at Fault for Millennial Aimlessness?

Baby boomers, mainly. And Big College.

The New York Times, paper of educated white men age 55 and above, doesn’t really “get” millennials. Well, it gets them in that it doesn’t like them–institutionally, it thinks that they’re lazy and entitled and loud. This is the fault of the millennials, of course, they were #bornthatway, no one (ahem, baby boomers) made them that way.

This Times article, examining the three “types” of post-college millennials, is a good example of that mindset. Besides largely ignoring issues of class and diversity, the article fails to consider how the so-called college industrial complex factors into the prorogation of young adults' careers and lives.

Are recent graduates held back by the age-old narrative of post-college aimlessness, or the fact that structural inequality and exorbitant college costs have dramatically changed the landscape of what it’s like to be a young adult in America? I’d argue the latter.